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I have a 1928? Typewriter that I won in a cartoon competition (gosh what competition was it? what did I do?)it is enormous has glass sides -it was used in teaching- typewriting skills in a Council (GLC)- it is at rest in my loft it weighs over forty pounds -threatens to collapse ceiling! But what to do with it should be in a museum (like me) of course the typewriter I actually loved was my Olivetti Lettera but that was 30 odd years before writing poetry P gosh those tapes lasted years -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Christopher C Jones Sent: 20 December 2008 08:14 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: On Sublime Computer Chips On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 09:06 -0700, Douglas Barbour wrote: > With reference to Max's post, Gibson wrote this on a typewriter! Lets start a thread naming our favourite typewriters. I was never really fond of the IBM golf ball. The three Olivetti would have to be me. Ha! Typewriters, such wonderful things. And editing 30 character double space typewritten copy with a blue pencil the typesetter could not decode. Stet, I tell him, stet, oh and that means delete that scrawl. It being all to much for the typesetter I was forced to learn the obscure control coding of orange text on grey dumb terminal feeding The Operating System which spooled to The Typesetter. I wrote my undergrad and graduate degrees on an Olivetti Studio electric, grey and green, what a typewriter! Well, not exactly, working in real estate advertising, I had enough excess funds (after paying my coke dealer) to purchase a Mac SE during my final undergrad year. So for my graduate thesis I hand wrote the first draft, typed the second on the Olivetti Studio and the final draft I typed on the Mac SE and set with Ready Set Go. I really must kerb my technological desires. Kerb, as lying in the gutter looking at the stars. My great uncle Wilkins owned a typewriter and did not take a wife. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.19/1857 - Release Date: 19/12/2008 10:09